Attachment for printing-press fliers



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E. LpSHATTUCK. ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING PRESS PLIERS.

No. 537,312. YIa,1;e11tedAp1. 9; 1895.

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. ATTACHMENT FOR PRINTING-PRESS FLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 537,312, dated April9, 1895.

Application tiled January l2, 1895. Serial No. 534.7675. (No model.) l

To all whom t may concern: l

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. SHATTUCK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New ,York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments forPrinting- PressFliers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse vthesame.

My invention has relation to attachments for printing press-fliers andthe object of my invention is to produce a device of this kind that issimple and l inexpensive, as well as eflicient and durable in use; andto these ends the novelty consists in abearing plate for attachment tothe surface of the tlier fingers, said plate having integral inclinedsupports in which astar wheel isjournaled, all of which will behereinafter more fully described and ypointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 isaside elevation of a portion of aprintingpress showing a flier provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is afront elevation of a fiier showing the friction star rollers in place onone finger of the fiier. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improvedroller. Fig. 4 is a developed View of the roller bearing plate. Fig. 5shows a front and side elevation of my device ready for attachment totheHier.

Referring to the drawings, A is a printing press, B the cylinder, and Cthe hier of the usual construction. The lier is provided with a seriesotl star wheels or pointed friction rollers D, for a well known purposeand arranged on the iier ingers.

The mechanism thus far described is old and well known, and my inventionresides entirely in the construction of the star frction rollers D whichwill now be described.

The friction rollers or star wheels Dare each mounted on an axis orpintle pin d which is carried in a bearing plate E, constructed asfollows: This bearing plate consists of a piece of sheet metal having aflat portion e provided with holes e by which it is secured to the liierfingers. This bearing plate has also a pair of lateral wings, e2,stamped from the same piece of sheet metal as the flat portion e, thatis to say, integral with the flat portion.

These wings taper toward the forward ends and are bent vinward and ontop of the flat portion, e, so -as to form parallel portions, e3,

which are pressed down in close contact with the said tlat portion e'.The ends of the lateral wings c2 are bent upward at right angles to theportions e3 to form supports, e", inclined from the forward end, inwhich the star rollers D are journaled, as will be fully understood fromthe drawings.

In use my attachment is secured to the upper surface of the Hierfingers, by small screws or brads, with the upwardly beveled portions inthe direction of the travel of the paper as it is delivered from thepress the point ends of the inclined wings of my attachment beingvtoward the free ends of the Hier fingers, as shown. yOrdinarily printingpresses are provided With cords or bands running over small pulleysbetween the flier tingerswhich are adapted to hold the printed sheetjust above the surface of the tly until it is in the proper position tobe carried over, butin many of the presses of the older style of make,the Iiies are made together with bars or wood strips, and in this classof presses the printed sheet slides down on the ily, and it is in thisstyle of press ilies that my attachment is especially advantageous overany other known construe tion of like devices, as in my device the starwheel supports being beveled in the direction of the travel of thepaper, it is impossible for the sheet to catch or clog against saidsupports as it comes from the press.

I am aware of the construction in the patent to Hyde et al., No.324,939, wherein is shown a star wheel mortised in the flier fingers, orattached on rods therebetween, constructions both expensive andcumbersome, which I do not claim, but

. What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for printing press fliersconsisting of a IOO from abearing plate, the wings being integral withsaid plate and beveled in the direction of the travel of the paper, saidplate being adapted to be secured to the surface of the ier ngers,substantially as described.

8. As an article of manufacture, an attachment for printing pressfliers, consisting of a star wheel, two supporting wings, and a bearingplate provided at opposite ends with holes for securing it to the flier,said supporting Wings and bearing plate being stamped from

